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QUICK LINKS:
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Paramount+ — save 50% on your first year with code PARAMOUNTPLUS when you sign up by March 3
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Discovery+ — get a free one-year subscription from Verizon with select Unlimited plans, Fios Home Internet, or 5G Home, or save 30% on a gift subscription
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HBO Max — save 20% on a six-month plan when you prepay
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Sling TV — free live TV and on-demand streaming from 5 p.m. to midnight EST every day through Feb. 14
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Starz — get a six-month subscription for $5/month
Signing up for a streaming service is no longer a “Netflix versus Hulu versus Amazon Prime Video” debate. Now that everyone’s cutting the cable cord, more and more networks are trying to get in on the VOD action by pulling their content off third-party platforms and making them exclusive to their own services. (See: Peacock and The Office, or Disney+ and the entire Star Wars franchise.) For us consumers, that means shelling out for multiple plans because there’s no one-stop shop for our favorite shows and movies.
The way we see it, if you’re going to be paying for a mishmash of streaming services every month, you might as well try to score some deals on your subscriptions. (A brand new study conducted by the media research firm Ampere found that the average U.S. household subscribes to *four* different streaming services nowadays, which adds up fast.) Here are four platforms that were running sales as of Feb. 12:
CBS All Access is rebranding and expanding as Paramount+ on March 4, and it’s marking the occasion with a limited-time deal: If you sign up for a one-year CBS All Access plan anytime before launch day and enter the code PARAMOUNTPLUS at checkout, you’ll save 50% and unlock everything on Paramount+ once the transition goes live. (That includes tons of content from CBS, BET, Comedy Central, MTV, Nickelodeon, and the Smithsonian Channel as well as tons of Paramount Pictures movies, several live stations, and some brand new originals — yes, even a new SpongeBob movie.)
Annual subscriptions normally go for $59.99/year, so being an early bird to Paramount+ will save you about $30.
Home to binge-worthy shows from channels like HGTV, Food Network, TLC, Animal Planet, Discovery Channel, A&E, and Lifetime (plus BBC’s entire Natural History Collection), Discovery+ is offering two opportunities to save right now. First up: If you’re a Verizon customer, you can get a complimentary one-year subscription to the ad-free version (normally $6.99/month) with select Unlimited plans or when you get Fios Home Internet or 5G Home. (Click here for more deets on that deal’s fine print.) For everyone else, you’ll save 30% when you give a friend (or yourself) the gift of a six- or 12-month ad-free subscription, which comes out to just $29 or $59, respectively.
As Mashable shopping reporter Dylan Haas astutely noted, HBO Max is the streaming service to have in 2021: Alongside its iconic TV shows and award-winning original series, it plans on dropping all of this year’s Warner Bros. Pictures films for limited release at the same time they hit theaters. (Judas and the Black Messiah is the latest to arrive, while Tom & Jerry, Godzilla vs. Kong, Mortal Kombat, Dune, The Suicide Squad, and the long-awaited Space Jam sequel all on deck.) Lucky for you, the platform just extended a deal where you can save 20% on a six-month plan when you opt to prepay it upfront (rather than paying monthly fees) anytime before March 1 — that brings it down to just $69.99.
Sling TV is sharing the love this Valentine’s Day: The streaming platform is running an extra-special “Sling Fling” promotion where anyone can watch live TV for free from 5 p.m. to midnight EST every day through Feb. 14. (That includes over 100 channels of live sports, movies, and shows and more than 85,00 on-demand movies and episodes.) To unlock the offer, just cough up your email address, a password, and your billing zip code — no credit card required.
We covered this one earlier this week, but it’s definitely worth a re-up for all you movie lovers out there: Normally $8.99 a month, new subscribers can get six months of Starz for just $5 a month (or 44% off.)
